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Narrative design combines game design and game writing. It uses the mechanics of game design to create a dramatically compelling story to the game player. In a broader sense, narrative design is a unity of carefully selected game mechanics that would adhere the story elements in either textual or symbolic/visual form with the aim to fulfil the desired gaming experience for the players. Narrative design can be textual, visual, or aural. It is usually a tight bond of all these mediums telling the story directly through players’ senses in a form of gaming experience that was set by the game designer.
Introduction
A narrative designer works together with the rest of the game development team from the conception to the release of the game (Heussner et al. 2015). The collaboration is closest with the game designer, who is responsible for the vision and idea of the whole...
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Bulatovic Trygg, N., Skult, P., Smed, J. (2018). Narrative Design. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_140-1
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